ANTH 3110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Shifting Cultivation, Intensive Farming
Document Summary
"as indigenous people, we are people of the earth" Having been dispossessed of land does not mean an indigenous group is no linger aa people. Land and indigenousness have more than one meaning. Land can be thought as physical environment, which societies adapt to with particular forms of subsistence and which strongly shape their overall cultures. How indigenous groups occupy certain biophysical environments and must adapt and form a subsistence strategy (way of providing the basic essentials of life) Territory is the ecosystem from which we draw the resources to survive and thrive. Subsistence: the act of providing for basic needs and in particular food. Subsistence strategy: how a culture enables or directs people to procure food and other basic necessities. 5 overarching subsistence strategies: foraging (hunting and gathering, horticulture (small-scale plant growing, shifting cultivation, polycropping, pastoralism (herding and use of domesticated animals, often trading with farmers, agriculture (intensive plant growing on continually cultivated land; plows, animal labor, irrigation)
